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WIN32 API Programming with Visual Basic Steven Roman
Publisher: O'Reilly Media

The Visual Basic programming system provides visual user-interface design capabilities with powerful general-purpose programming tools, making it easy for any programmer to create compiled Windows .EXE files that The Visual Basic system also supports dynamic link libraries (DLLs), which allow the user to establish links with other Windows systems facilities and call the Windows API or routines written in other languages and compiled into DLLs. For instance, to show a window (a form in Visual Basic), to resize a window or to add an item to list box Windows use APIs. Posted by: Phil Weber, VB MVP This post applies to Visual Basic .NET 2002/2003/2005. - David Platt Once you added in some of the advanced techniques with tools like Dan Appleman's SpyWorks and other comparatively low-level API tools, it was arguably near as powerful and productive as its more advanced brother, MFC and C++. VBA and VBScript are the scripting languages similar to visual basic syntax. Win32 API Programming with Visual Basic [Paperback] by Steven Roman. Visual Basic allows programmers to do windows programming using various Application programming interfaces (APIs). But why should a Visual Basic programmer worry about all this? Programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but doing so requires external function declarations. The Win32 Application Programming Interface (API) is probably the most powerful add-on component available for Visual Basic. Becoming a good Visual Basic 6 programmer took much less time than becoming a good C++ programmer, the primary alternative at the time. A programmer can put together an application using the components provided with Visual Basic itself. The programmer can build applications by using components provided by Microsoft Visual Basic programs written in Visual Basic can also use the Windows API, but requires additional external function declarations. Hundreds of functions are available to perform a wide variety of tasks. NET Framework 1.0 (2002), which is incompatible with Windows 7 (2009).